yeah top is great for seeing exactly what is happening "behind the scenes" on the mac. On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 6:22 PM, peiman khosravi wrote: > OK I just tried the top command (btw I didn't know about it, great > command!). > When running csound with blue, the only other programme that is > using significant CPU is java actually, but only about 5%. At the point > where csound glitches csound's usage suddenly goes up to over 90% CPU. So it > seems like I need more ram! I'm surprised at how much CPU firefox is using > (just tried it as a test), up to 29%! Not surprising then that when I have > the manual page open csound performs so much worst! > > I'll do more tests in the morning... > > Thanks > Peiman > > On 20 Sep 2008, at 02:01, Brian Redfern wrote: > > Yeah I don't think that's the issue so much as something else messing with > your sound performance, what I would do is run the 'top" command from the > bash shell and see what is taking all the resources, then you can see if > something else is stealing your cpu away from csound. > > On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 5:55 PM, peiman khosravi > wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I tried this once but the problem is that it doesn't support any graphics >> at all. So I won't be able to run blue or even a text editor (as far as I >> know anyway). I'm just downloading this: >> http://code.goto10.org/projects/puredyne/ >> >> Looks very very exiting!! You can run it from USB key as well which if it >> works will be awesome. Next have to see if blue is installable on it! >> >> Best >> Peiman >> >> >> On 19 Sep 2008, at 19:20, kCk wrote: >> >> >>> >>> >>> peiman wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> It would be nice to be able to run osx in unix mode without the desktop >>>> though!!! >>>> >>>> you could try logging in as ">console". i have not tried this but have >>> heard >>> that it works with some versions of OSX. if you only need the command >>> line >>> for what you are doing this should give you more resources. >>> later. >>> kurt >>> -- >>> View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/real-time- >>> performance-optimization-on-powerbook-pro....-tp19571293p19577282.html >>> Sent from the Csound - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>> >>> >>> >>> Send bugs reports to this list. >>> To unsubscribe, send email sympa@lists.bath.ac.uk with body "unsubscribe >>> csound" >>> >> >> >> >> Send bugs reports to this list. >> To unsubscribe, send email sympa@lists.bath.ac.uk with body "unsubscribe >> csound" >> > > >